How's the aurora season going?⠀Getting many images of the dancing colourful lights?⠀@thom_astro had an advantageous point of view when he took this shot aboard the @iss, but if you are down on Earth and have a cool pic or video of the auroras, you should join our Instagram community, @yourESA, and tag your captures with #yourESA.⠀⠀And since it's the weekend and we love to dance, follow the link in our bio to start dancing to Thomas' @spotify playlist!⠀⠀📸@europeanspaceagency / @NASA

This artist’s impression shows the exoplanet 55 Cancri e as close-up. Due to its proximity to its parent star, the temperatures on the surface of the planet are thought to reach about 2000 degrees Celsius.

Scientists were able to analyze the atmosphere of 55 Cancri e. It was the first time this was possible for a super-Earth exoplanet.

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This is Messier 51 (The Whirlpool Galaxy) M51 consists of 2 interacting galaxies, merging together, you can see what looks like fuzzy dust all around the smaller galaxy, this is actually stars being drawn in to the larger galaxy or scattered into outer space. It is located about 23million lightyears away and contains about 100 billion stars. If there was someone on a planet around one of those stars that you wanted to send a message to, be ready for a long wait, it would take your message 23million years to get there and 23million years to get a response.... so I would get the kettle on if I were you. The weather was great all night and it allowed me to get nearly 4.5hrs of data on this target, really bringing out the detail and reducing noise. The image would have been a lot better but I messed up my dark and bias frames, next time hey. I managed to get my polar alignment bang on, well nearly, so I was able to get 180second exposures without the need to autoguide, which was great because the wind was gusty, so kept throwing the guiding out. Super happy with the results and it was great to get a full night of clear skies, keep them coming EQUIPMENT Scope: Sky-Watcher 200p Mount: Sky-Watcher EQ5 proCamera: Canon 700D bare sensor Filter: Astronomik CLS CCD Captured using Backyard EOSStacked in Deep Sky Stacker Processed in Photoshop